ROMEO KALTENBRUNNER - Heimweh

Romeo has to go home, from Vienna to Upper Austria. Grandma is dying. Again. The journey to his native village is also a journey through time for Romeo - a return to his own childhood and youth. He meets his old school sweetheart, whom he couldn't kiss back then. Her family forbade it. Partly because Romeo had the wrong skin color. Mainly because he had too few hectares (note: zero).

Romeo visits a tent festival in the village, where the same band plays as it did 15 years ago, and where the same Nazis as 15 years ago want to beat him up. It's wonderful when some things in life simply stay the same.

Surrounded by the smell of grilled chicken and slightly drunk on an entire box of Jägermeister, Romeo becomes nostalgic. Should he ultimately not return to Vienna, where people are admittedly more liberal - but unfortunately also duller? Isn't this village his true homeland? What is homeland anyway? Can one be proud of one's country if one doesn't know one's own father?

In his second cabaret program "HEIMWEH," Romeo Kaltenbrunner talks about growing up in the countryside and what it's like when you look foreign, even though your family name and dialect suggest otherwise.